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About Blurb Stock
Blurb® is a self-publishing and marketing platform that unleashes the creative genius inside everyone. Blurb’s platform makes it easy to design, publish, promote, and sell professional-quality printed books and ebooks.
Blurb was founded by Eileen Gittins in 2005, and includes a team of design, Internet and media veterans who share a passion for helping people bring their stories to life. Blurb authors have created millions of books using our full suite of free book-making tools, and today a new book is created every minute. Blurb is based in San Francisco with offices in London. More information about Blurb can be found here.
Investors
Canaan Partners
Instacart, Snyk, Dragos, Turo, The RealReal, MindTickle, Lending Club, Berkshire Grey, Tomorrow.io, Apartment List
Funding History
| May 2005 | $2.0M |
|---|---|
| October 2006 | $12.0M |
| January 2007 | $2.5M |
| October 2008 | $2.5M |
| October 2008 | $5.0M |
| July 2014 | $0 |
Management
Content Director
Milena Canizares
CEO
Todd Larsen
VP Engineering
Ajay Agrawal
SVP and General Manager
Kelly E. Leach
Sr. Vice President, Print Operations
Bruce Watermann
Founder, President & CEO
Eileen Gittins
Press
cnet - Dec, 23 2021
Get your digital memories in print with 40% off Blurbprweb - Oct, 21 2020
Blurb® Streamlines Creation of Wall Decor with Free Blurb Wall Art Plugin for Adobe Photoshop, enabling users to seamlessly create custom wall art on multiple surfacesuproxx - Apr, 8 2020
Beanie Feldstein Gets The Starring Role She Deserves In The ‘How To Build A Girl’ TrailerBuzzFeed - Mar, 30 2020
Are You More Like Amy Or Molly From "Booksmart"?variety - Mar, 28 2020
How a Bart Simpson T-Shirt Delayed Dylan Sprouse’s Movie ‘Banana Split’hollywoodreporter - Feb, 22 2020
Berlin Hot List: 14 Titles Set to Heat Up the Festivalvariety - Feb, 10 2020
Olivia Wilde’s ‘Booksmart’ Red Carpet Style Reflects Powerful P.O.V.koreaherald - Feb, 3 2020
'Parasite' receives top screenplay prize from Writers Guild of Americakoreaherald - Feb, 3 2020
'Parasite' receives top screenplay prize from Writers Guild of AmericaBuzzFeed - Jan, 31 2020
After Owning Roles In "Top Boy" And "Blue Story", Rising Star Micheal Ward Wants People To Know He's Got More To Giveprweb - Jan, 24 2020
Intertrust Partners with Worldreader to Improve Reading Literacy and Access in Ugandastandard - Jan, 23 2020
Bafta nominee Kaitlyn Dever wants roles 'more often given to men'jpost - Jan, 16 2020
Jewish celebs star in Vanity Fair's Hollywood Issue fantasy filmhollywoodreporter - Jan, 10 2020
Oscars: How Box Office and Other Noms Are Affecting the Odds for 'Little Women,' 'Cats' and Morehuffpost - Jan, 10 2020
18 Celebs You May Not Know Have Famous Siblingscnet - Dec, 26 2019
The best movies of 2019: What to watch from this yearsandiegouniontribune - Dec, 24 2019
Column: From ‘Booksmart’ to San Diego’s indie bookstores, a tribute to the pop-culture gifts of 2019BuzzFeed - Dec, 19 2019
An Ode To Gigi From "Booksmart," The Single Best Character Of 2019New York Times - Dec, 18 2019
The New Pop Culture Optimismhollywoodreporter - Dec, 18 2019
Olivia Wilde to Be Honored by Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics (Exclusive)cnet - Dec, 14 2019
The best movies of 2019: What to watch from this yearBuzzFeed - Dec, 13 2019
What Film Or Series Made By A Woman Did You Love This Year?yahoo - Nov, 28 2019
'Schitt's Creek' creator Dan Levy claims Delta cut gay love scenes from 'Rocketman'hollywoodreporter - Nov, 27 2019
Inside This Week's Top Events and Hollywood Partieshollywoodreporter - Nov, 10 2019
AFM: 'How To Build A Girl' to Get North American Release via IFC Filmshollywoodreporter - Nov, 9 2019
Kaitlyn Dever and Jonathan Tucker to Star in Hulu Anthology 'Monsterland' (Exclusive)hollywoodreporter - Nov, 7 2019
Savannah Film Fest: Olivia Wilde on 'Booksmart,' Directing and Delta's "Vagina" Problem (Video)huffpost - Nov, 2 2019
Delta Responds To ‘Booksmart’ Backlash After Olivia Wilde Slams Censored Filmyahoo - Oct, 29 2019
Olivia Wilde and ‘Booksmart’ Cast Shocked Airline Edited Out Lesbian Sex Scenehuffpost - Oct, 3 2019
Beanie Feldstein Says Meeting Her Girlfriend Was A Transformative Experiencesearchenginewatch - Jul, 25 2019
Small-budget guide to testing ad copy, landing pages, and moretheguardian - May, 28 2019
You can’t sit with us: does Booksmart spell the end of high school stereotypes?huffpost - May, 27 2019
How ‘Booksmart’ Created A Banner Musical Moment With ‘You Oughta Know’boston - May, 26 2019
‘Aladdin’ soars, but ‘Booksmart’ barely passes at box officetheverge - May, 26 2019
Booksmart intelligently redefines nerds for an era of mainstream nerd culturehuffpost - May, 26 2019
‘Booksmart’ Is Refreshingly Real On How It’s Hard To Be A Woman With Ambitionbostonherald - May, 25 2019
‘Booksmart’ whip-smart and comedy goldnpr - May, 25 2019
'Booksmart' Tweaks Convention By Offering A Gentler View Of High Schoolwsj - May, 24 2019
‘Booksmart’ Review: A Joy, Cover to CoverNew York Times - May, 24 2019
The Class Clowns of ‘Booksmart’: Beanie Feldstein and Kaitlyn Devernews - May, 24 2019
Olivia Wilde on Booksmart, Red Hot Chili Peppers and female directorsvice - May, 24 2019
'Booksmart' Proves That Raunchy Teen Comedies Don't Have to Be Offensive to Be Funnystandard - May, 24 2019
Booksmart review: Nerdy girls can be mean and funny toomercurynews - May, 24 2019
Review: ‘Booksmart’ is hilarious and truly endearingslate - May, 24 2019
Booksmart Is More Than Just a Queer, Gender-Flipped Superbadnpr - May, 24 2019
'Booksmart' Is A Wise And Warm Summer Comedytime - May, 24 2019
Booksmart Is the Perfect Coming-of-Age Story for Right Nowwsj - May, 23 2019
Will Olivia Wilde’s ‘Booksmart’ Become Gen Z’s ‘Breakfast Club’?azcentral - May, 23 2019
'Booksmart' is what happens when high school overachievers go wildnytimes - May, 23 2019
Review: ‘Booksmart’ Crashes the Party and Aces the Testthestate - May, 22 2019
Family guide to new movie releaseswsj - May, 21 2019
Meet Booksmart’s Beanie Feldstein, Jonah Hill’s Brilliantly Funny Sisterprnewswire - Apr, 10 2019
14th Annual Film Independent Forum To Open With Olivia Wilde's BOOKSMARTdigitaltrends - Mar, 15 2019
The Lensbaby Composer Pro II with Edge 35 mimics tilt-shift blur for less cashDigital Reader - Jun, 8 2017
Reedsy Partners with BlurbTechCrunch - Jun, 7 2017
Reedsy now lets you print your book on Blurb in no timecbinsights - Feb, 25 2017
Wanna Work In VC?siliconflorist - Nov, 4 2016
Two user experience talks. You can only attend one. Which experience will you choose?venturebeat - Nov, 1 2016
Everalbum rebrands and launches a Shutterfly competitorventurebeat - Nov, 1 2016
Amazon’s Prime Photos service now lets you share storage with 5 family memberscbinsights - Oct, 28 2016
Map of Walmart Store Closingsmarketingland - Oct, 27 2016
Marketing Day: Snapchat Stories redesign, Google Analytics updates & IAB’s VR/AR reportthe-digital-reader - Oct, 26 2016
Why PRH Sold Author Solutions: Business Dropped by a Quarter in 2015cbinsights - Oct, 26 2016
Confused: Walmart Buying JetThe Today Show - Jun, 3 2016
Plug your kids’ summer brain drain with these appsventurebeat - May, 12 2016
Airbnb hires its first director of product dedicated to hostsbusinesswire - Mar, 3 2016
Origami Logic Expands Executive Team and Moves Headquarters to Support Company Growthcbinsights - Feb, 20 2016
Startup Valuation Compressioncbinsights - Feb, 20 2016
Getting Rid of Startup Wantrepreneurstechrepublic - Feb, 4 2016
How publishing startups use tech tactics to thrive in the digital eracbinsights - Jan, 28 2016
Huh? Google Ventures Gets Busy in Travelbusinesswire - Jan, 24 2016
Navigant Publishes Children’s Book to Support National Reading Daywired - Jan, 20 2016
How to Turn Both Paper and Digital Text Into an E-Bookprlog - Jan, 12 2016
“T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents” Producer David Uslan joins 48FILM Project Jurycbinsights - Nov, 4 2015
Surprise: Elon Musk’s SpaceX Losesmashable - Sep, 29 2015
Mashable Media Summit agenda announcedmashable - Sep, 29 2015
Exciting new additions to the 2014 Mashable Media Summit agendathenextweb - Sep, 29 2015
Got 15 minutes? Create a printed photo book with new Montage Web appengadget - Sep, 29 2015
Samsung's 'Look at Me' app teaches autistic children to communicatetech - Sep, 29 2015
Girls in Tech Appoints 11 Phenomenal Leaders to Board of Directorsbusinesswire - Sep, 29 2015
Blurb Adds Two Marketing and Communications Veterans to its Teambusinesswire - Sep, 29 2015
Blurb Adds Two Marketing and Communications Veterans to its Teambusinesswire - Sep, 29 2015
Blurb Joins Forces with Design Observer and Launches the Thesis Book Projecttech - Sep, 29 2015
A Book in 5 Minutes: The Startup Playbook: Secrets of the Fastest-Growing Startups from Their Founding Entrepreneursthenextweb - Aug, 24 2015
Recently documents your life via a monthly photo magazineengadget - May, 21 2015
Samsung's 'Kapture The Moment' event hints at new camera-centric phoneengadget - May, 21 2015
What you can expect at IFA 2014engadget - May, 21 2015
Verizon's prepaid plans now let you use LTE smartphonesengadget - May, 21 2015
AT&T's high-quality LTE calls arrive on May 23rd, but only on one phoneventurebeat - May, 20 2015
Self-publishing startup Blurb signs book distribution deals with Amazon & Ingram | VentureBeat | Media | by Tom Cheredarventurebeat - May, 20 2015
Self-publishing startup Blurb now helps authors hire designers and editors to perfect their book | VentureBeat | Media | by Tom Cheredarventurebeat - May, 20 2015
19 startups ready to blast off in 2015 | VentureBeat | Entrepreneur | by Tom Cheredar && Dylan Tweneycnet - May, 20 2015
The best and worst photo-book-making sites for you - CNETventurebeat - May, 20 2015
Indie publishing startup Blurb acqui-hires Graphicly | VentureBeat | Deals | by Tom CheredarTechCrunch - May, 19 2015
We’re Still Traveling Like It’s 1996thenextweb - May, 19 2015
The Next Webthenextweb - May, 19 2015
Blurb Branches Out to Low-Cost Trade Books, E-books and Mass Distributionthenextweb - May, 19 2015
Blurb Teams up with Amazon for Self-Published Photo Booksmashable - May, 12 2015
How to Bridge the Gap Between Online and Offline Marketingengadget - Apr, 29 2015
Samsung Galaxy S5 review: a solid improvement, but don't rush to upgradeForbes - Jan, 28 2015
Eileen Gittins Builds Blurb To Make Book Publishing Easy And AffordableTechCrunch - Jun, 12 2014
Indie E-Book Printer Blurb Buys Graphicly, Will Shut Down Comic E-Publishing Platform | TechCrunchEquityZen does not have an affiliation with, formal relationship with, or endorsement from any companies featured above. This profile is based on publicly available information and is intended to be informative in nature.
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